QA PROFESSIONAL WITH PRODUCT ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
Over 11 years of software industry experience in Product Engineering and Quality Assurance with 6 years in managerial and team leading roles

• Extensive experience in defining, championing and operationalizing QA processes in varied organizations
• Highly experienced with automation frameworks, white box testing, testing APIs & web services, and black box testing
• Proven track record of successfully delivering industry leading web application working in various roles across different functional teams
• Extensive experience in QA on high traffic/availability websites and applications including Y! Hotjobs and Y! Display advertising product
• Over 6 years of product development experience developing application on Java, PERL, Ruby, etc.
• Strong experience in agile practices of continuous integration and test driven development
• Experience with diverse operating systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Linux, Mac, AIX, HPUX, Solaris
• Excellent People and Project Management Skills managing and leading teams of 2-5 engineers
• Highly skilled and experienced in Agile Development process for diverse requirements
• Several years of experience in reviewing business requirements/specifications and technical documentations, creating verification/validation strategies, writing solid and comprehensive test cases/plans, executing test plans, automating performance and regression tests using open-source automation frameworks, and supporting revenue impacting production issues
• Deep understanding of digital advertising/search industry(Display Advertising), Job search(HotJobs.com - now Monster.com), Email Marketing, Supply Chain and Telecom Industry, online retail and mass configuration experience

Technical Skills

• OS: Windows XP, Windows NT, Linux, Mac, AIX, HPUX, Solaris
• Languages/Technologies: Java, PERL, Ruby, PHP, XML, HTML, Unix, SQL, MySQL
• QA Tools/Technologies: JUnit, Watir/Ruby, PERL/Unix scripting. QTP, Astraload, QuickTest, WinRunner,LoadRunner, Selenium
• IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, JDeveloper
• Version control systems: Subversion, CVS, ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe
• Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, ClearQuest, Jama Contour
• Test Management Tools: TestDirector
• Software development Methodologies/Practices: Waterfall, Agile, Continuous Integration
• Continuous Integration Tools: Hudson, Maven, Tomcat, ant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA
Consultant QA Manager, APT (E2E Integration Team)
2010 - Nov 2011

• Automated the build process for end-to-end integration framework on Hudson (Using Continuous Integration methodology)
• Led the team of 4 QA engineers for integration testing of Yahoo's Display Advertising Platform to support feature releases and regressions
• Enhanced xml and java based end-to-end integration framework for testing the widely distributed Advertising product of Yahoo
• Defined, Prioritized, Planned and Allocated QA tasks to the offshore and onshore engineers and monitoredto ensure Quality and Timely delivery; verifying web services and integration APIs
• Enhanced and maintained the automation framework(Java, XMl, Perl), championed usage across other QA teams and provided technical leadership to QA engineers on the enhanced framework
• Led setup of two complete end to end environments for testing and launching parallel releases for Yahoo's Display Advertising Product

Confidential
Yahoo Technical, APT (Demand/Order Module)
2007 - 2009

• Led the effort to create and maintain JUnit testcases for Advertiser, Supply and Creative components smoke and functional automation team
• Led the QA of multiple releases for various features in production
• Prepared dev machines for new development phases

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA
Yahoo Technical, Hotjobs
2005 - 2007

• Developed Watir/Ruby test framework for function, regression and smoke testing in test and productionenvironments. I also helped Y! Auto and Y! Personals team to get started with their framework development using this new technology.
• Launched several important releases as either an individual effort or leading the team effort: Rome, OFCCP

(Phase1 and Phase2), Newspaper Consortium, Vespa Search Engine

• Created and maintained test lab for cross browser, function and performance testing
• Collaborate with teams to help define and execute on Quality Test Plans
• Develop and Execute Test Automation to help improve overall test efficiency.

Confidential,San Mateo, CA
Senior Automation Engineer
2005 - 2005

• Led a team of four QA Engineers through the entire QA Cycle
• Created an automation framework using Junit to automate the functional and load testing of the process of sending mass advertising emails to customers
• Produced and managed QA deliverables through formal Project Plans
• Defined, maintained and delivered Test Prep, Test Execution and Defect Metrics for Analytical Solutions product(now known as Infor's CRM Epiphany analytical solution) to Senior Management
• Identified, investigated and helped in resolving Project Issues
• Facilitated Defect Triage meeting; Informed Senior Management of Risks / Issues discovered while testing

Confidential, Dallas, TX
Engineer
2003 - 2005

• Work closely with the Development teams, Technical Operations teams, Quality Engineering teams, Product Management teams, and Internal/External Users during the software development life cycle of a complex

Supply Chain application for the client SSI Global

• Design test plans and execute test cases by performing Unit, Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance, Load, Cross OS, Smoke, and End-to-End testing based on identified testing strategies
• Develop and execute complex SQL queries to validate data points
• Automate performance and regression test cases using LoadRunner, AstraLoad and Unix Korn Shell Scripting

Confidential, India
Senior Systems Engineer
1999 - 2002

• Developed the user interfaces in Oracle Forms for Billing Mediation Platform of Ericsson
• Maintained and extended the business logic for Telecom Rating product using C and ProC
• Conceived, initiated and implemented the automation of Billing Job Transfer Process across different platforms and thus saving revenue for the company

Confidential, India
Project Trainee
1999 - 1999

• Developed and maintained user interfaces in Visual Basic for the client KLM Airlines.

EDUCATION

MS in Software Engineering